Help understanding basic permissions & YAML (WorldGuard)

Ok, I've spent several days trying to troubleshoot this and figure out how to do basic permissions using Worldguard, and nothing I try works.

I have myself assigned as op and everything works fine for me.
Any other users who login to server cannot use commands.

What I want to happen: Any first-time users fall into the "Newbie" group, and be able to use commands I allow in permissions.yml (in this example, "/rg info" and "/rg list")

Presently, when users attempt to use ANY command, they get red message "You don't have permission."
Likewise, immediately when typing a command ("/rg info" in this example), as soon as they type "/r", (before pressing enter) a message pops up "Unknown or incomplete command, see below for error at position 1: /<--[HERE]"

I started building my permissions.yml file using example from this post: https://bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-guide-permissions.50305/

I have also tried several other variations of formatting I've found, all give the same result (or errors).

My OS: Windows 10 Build 18363.1256
64-Bit
Java version: 1.8.0_271, 64-Bit
Running craftbukkit using command: "java -Xms2G -Xmx2G -jar craftbukkit-1.16.4.jar"
Plugins in plugin folder: worldedit-bukkit-7.2.0-dist.jar, worldguard-bukkit-7.0.4

Here is my permissions.yml file:

Code:

groups:
  Newbie:
    default: true
    permissions:
    - worldguard.region.info.*
    - worldguard.region.list
    inheritance: []
    info:
      prefix: []
      build: true
      suffix: ''
  Member:
    default: false
    permissions: []
    inheritance:
    - Newbie
    info: []
  Owner:
    default: false
    permissions: []
    inheritance:
    - Member
    info: []

I have tried listing the permission commands in 'quotes' as I've seen in other examples, still get the same result. I have also tried "worldguard.region.info.*", "worldguard.region.list.*", "worldguard.region.*", "worldguard.*" and still get the same results. I have tried using 4 spaces instead of two for indentations as seen in other examples, no change (or sometimes errors).

I feel like I'm missing something fundamental, but any help to get me going would be appreciated.

 

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